Nigeria News

Kano - In a campaign to enforce a law in place since 2001, police in the north Nigerian city of Kano confiscated 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday which was taken to a landfill and destroyed.

Port Harcourt - Nigerian police raided an illegal maternity home in Rivers state, rescuing six pregnant girls and arresting a woman accused of keeping them there.

Cholera has been the scourge of mankind for over 200 years, killing millions of people. Once thought to be caused by "bad air," we now know it is spread through poor sanitation practices and a lack of hygiene, still common in developing countries.

Pirates attacked an oil platform supply vessel in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria on Wednesday, kidnapping two American citizens in the process.

After days of speculation, the BBC has revealed details of the return of nine Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s, previously missing from their archives.

Islamist militants have attacked a college in Nigeria's northeast and have shot 40 male students, some of them while they were sleeping early on Sunday.

New York - New, more gory details have emerged in what was reported first as the killing of 35 Muslim worshipers and the wounding of 14 last week in the town of Dumba village in Borno State, Nigeria.

A report by The Economist magazine reveals that Nigerian federal legislators are the highest paid in the world with an annual basic salary of $189,500 (N30.6 m). The National Assembly has rejected the report, describing it as "grossly exaggerated."

Outrage has followed the move by some members of the Nigerian Senate to legalize pedophilia under the guise of "Islamic tradition." A list of Senators who allegedly voted in favor of underage marriage has been published.

Abuja - In a move that would be seen as the climax to an unfolding drama following approval of 14-year jail term for gays on grounds of religious morality, the Nigerian Senate has approved marriage for underage girls also on the ground of religious morality.